What does go down mean?

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go down

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. descend, fall, go down, come downverb

    move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way

    "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"

  2. sink, settle, go down, go underverb

    go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"

  3. decline, go down, waneverb

    grow smaller

    "Interest in the project waned"

  4. go downverb

    be recorded or remembered

    "She will go down as the first feminist"

  5. go downverb

    be ingested

    "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"

  6. go downverb

    be defeated

    "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"

  7. set, go down, go underverb

    disappear beyond the horizon

    "the sun sets early these days"

  8. crash, go downverb

    stop operating

    "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week"

Wiktionary

  1. go downverb

    To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.

  2. go downverb

    To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one.

  3. go downverb

    To fall (down), fall to the floor.

  4. go downverb

    To stop functioning, to go offline.

  5. go downverb

    To be received or accepted.

  6. go downverb

    To be recorded or remembered (as).

  7. go downverb

    To perform oral sex.

  8. go downverb

    To take place, happen.

  9. go downverb

    To disappear below the horizon of a plane; to set.

ChatGPT

  1. go down

    "Go down" is a phrasal verb that generally means to move or be positioned in a lower level or position. It can also refer to decrease in value, size, amount, or strength. Moreover, it can mean to occur, happen or be remembered in a particular way or to be accepted or received in a particular manner. The specific meaning often depends on the context in which it is used.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. go down

    The name given to store-houses and magazines in the East Indies.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of go down in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of go down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of go down in a Sentence

  1. Jonathan Whitehead:

    Many E&P firms are looking at financial optimization and rebalancing their debt, future investment and hedging activities. If you are massively in-the-money on your hedges, it might make sense to reset strikes and pay down debt, particularly if you are paying off some of the covenants that are more restrictive.

  2. Nikolas Xiros:

    There is a series of peculiar things and all that need to be explained, it may very well be some kind of an accident, but not necessarily a human error. We will have to see. But … I think the most probable explanation is the ship with anchor down moved both back and forth and possibly caused damage to the pipeline.

  3. Scott Kostyra:

    This middleware is essentially at the core of the loan market ecosystem that will provide seamless integration among systems and straight-through-processing of loan servicing and settlement data, this efficiency gain is, in itself, important, but will also contribute to bringing down loan trade settlement times.

  4. Andrew Clark:

    While President Trump took decisive action in January to form the task force and shut down travel with China, President Trump was criticizing The President as' hysterical' and' xenophobic,'.

  5. John A. Dix:

    If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.


Translations for go down

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  • انزلArabic
  • случвам се, намалея, запомням, приемам, сляза, слизам, спускам се, спра, приема, запомня, случа се, намалявам, падна, помня, падам, спирамBulgarian
  • klesatCzech
  • skeDanish
  • absteigen, hinabsteigen, abnehmenGerman
  • κατεβαίνωGreek
  • baisser, descendre, sucer, tomber en panne, diminuer, tomberFrench
  • ירדHebrew
  • 落ちるJapanese
  • degrediorLatin
  • afdalenDutch
  • descerPortuguese
  • уменьшиться, происходить, снижаться, спуститься, опускаться, снизиться, спускаться, уменьшаться, опуститься, сосатьRussian

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